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Ahead of President Obama’s speech on immigration on Thursday night, the major broadcast networks all did their parts to push the arguments in favor of his executive amnesty ranging from a whole segment devoted to a family that would benefit from the President’s executive order to promoting one pro-amnesty group. On the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, over two minutes were spent on segment promoting a family of children born in the U.S. with an illegal immigrant mother, who currently is in an Arizona detention center, but now could be allowed to be freed and apply to become a U.S. resident under the President’s executive amnesty.

On Wednesday’s AC360, CNN’s Dana Bash was hesitant to address President Obama’s past remarks on immigration reform, where he repeatedly denied that he couldn’t act alone – to the point that she first touted the Democrat’s supposed academic credentials. After host Anderson Cooper played five clips of Mr. Obama making this point, Bash replied that “we should also remind people that he’s not just the President. He also…was a constitutional professor…so, he speaks…with academic knowledge.”

On Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie framed President Obama’s upcoming executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants as him simply keeping his word: “President Obama will address the nation tonight on the hot-button issue of immigration reform, planning to make good on a progress – a promise to sidestep Congress and take executive action.” Moments later, correspondent Peter Alexander declared: “The President is committed and tonight in primetime he’s going to announce his action, after Congress’s failure to approve a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Frustrated that Washington’s let America’s immigration crisis to fester for decades, tonight the President will announce significant steps to fix it himself.”

Although many journalistic outlets have conducted a blackout of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber’s comments about duping “stupid” Americans, CNN’s Jake Tapper has delivered consistent coverage and on CNN.com, Wednesday, offered an elaborate explanation of why Gruber’s impolitic comments are really important. After explaining how the President insisted that his health care plan wouldn’t do what Gruber says it will, Tapper declared, “Gruber thinks ObamaCare is a good thing. It’s just that we voters were too stupid to realize that. So, we had to be fooled. And that’s why so many people are mad about it.”

During the Republican Governors Association conference on Wednesday, Meet the Pressmoderator Chuck Todd spent more than half of an hour-long panel discussion grilling several GOP governors on illegal immigration and President Obama’s upcoming executive order to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called him out: “We have an hour. We’ve now spent 30 minutes talking about the President breaking the law tomorrow….I’d like to talk about energy, I’d like to talk about education.” Minutes later, after Todd continued to harp on the issue, Texas Governor Rick Perry remarked: “Here’s what I’m thinking: You will probably not be invited to do a moderation for a presidential debate.” That prompted laughter and applause from the audience.

Following President Obama’s decision to delay any executive action on immigration reform, ABC’s Good Morning America did its best to hit the president from the left for failing to offer legal status to potentially millions of illegal immigrants currently living in this country. On Sunday, September 7, co-host Dan Harris played up how “there is anger this morning in the Hispanic community over a decision made by President Obama. He had promised to take action soon on immigration reform, protecting families from the threat of deportation. But now he’s saying he’s going to wait until after the elections in November.” Harris then turned to reporter Jim Avila who lamented how President Obama’s decision to wait has hurt his relationship with the Hispanic community.

Despite a combined eight hours of available air time, NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Friday ignored a bombshell new book claiming that a CIA official delayed a rescue attempt for the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi. Instead, the networks devoted 66 minutes to the death of Joan Rivers. Two of the co-authors of 13 Hours, men who were on the ground in Benghazi, appeared on Fox News, Thursday and insisted that the delay was deadly. Special Report host Bret Baier talked to Kris Paronto and John Tiegen, CIA security operators who told him that a station chief told them to stand down from a rescue attempt for at least 30 minutes. Baier asked point blank: “If I gave you that 30 minutes back, would Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith be alive today?” Paronto responded, “Yes, they would still be alive.”

The IRS targeting scandal has all the intrigue of a political thriller. First it was the missing e-mails, then destroyed hard drives and now a missing person in the form of one-time Lois Lerner underling Andrew Strelka. On September 3, Republican Congressman Jim Jordan sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding to know, by a Friday deadline, the information on the whereabouts of Strelka. In the letter Jordan suggested the Department of Justice was hiding Strelka from the House Oversight Committee investigating the IRS-targeting scandal. Incredibly, this accusation has yet to be covered by any of the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening or morning shows.

On Wednesday, the New York Post reported that in addition to Matt Lauer’s $20 million annual salary, NBC News recently agreed to start flying the Today co-host back and forth from work to his lavish estate in the Hamptons. Such details of Lauer’s one percent lifestyle stand in stark contrast to the common-man image he projects on the morning show. In fact, Lauer has frequently used his media pulpit to preach liberal talking points on class warfare and income redistribution. Here is a sampling of his worst moments of wealth hypocrisy at the anchor desk.

While promoting a book of news photography on CBS This Morning on Saturday, Sir Harold Evans, editor at large of the Reuters news agency, called the electric chair a “monstrosity” and said seeing a picture of one was “almost as appalling, in its sense, as these barbarians who have taken the heads off journalists in the desert.”

After Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning primary defeat Tuesdaynight, the broadcast networks Wednesday morning wrung their hands over the loss and fretted that immigration reform, which Cantor supported, was doomed. On NBC’s Today, political director Chuck Todd declared: “…this, by the way, means immigration reform during the rest of the Obama presidency, the idea that it’s gonna happen, is dead. It is not going to happen in 2016.”Co-host Savannah Guthrie worried: “Is anything going to happen? I mean, I guess the question is whether Republicans will be so spooked by someone in such a strong position of leadership being vulnerable that they won’t want to compromise even one bit.” Todd replied: “They’re going to be afraid to do anything the rest of this legislative cycle…”

Comparing Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices book tour to an “out of town play getting ready in New Haven,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Wednesday night dismissed the former Secretary of State’s tone-deaf “dead broke” line from her interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer as a “small kind of gaffe, or even a half gaffe.”

CBS Evening News was the only Big Three evening newscast on Wednesday to report that the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the V.A. scandal. Neither ABC’s World Newsnor NBC Nightly News covered this latest development in the ongoing controversy. Instead, both programs devoted air time to the 20th anniversary of O.J. Simpson’s slow-speed run from the police, after the murder of his wife and her friend.

Miguel Almaguer hyped on Wednesday’sNBC Nightly News that “since the mass shooting in Newtown a year and a half ago, there’s been at least 74 school shootings across the country – roughly one every week.” However, the correspondent failed to mention that this figure came from the pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded earlier in 2014 by liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg. On Tuesday, Kyle Becker of the Independent Journal Review spotlighted a series of Twitter posts from author and journalist Charles C. Johnson, which called out Bloomberg’s organization for giving an “exaggerated impression of how many school shootings have taken place.”

On Monday the House Oversight Committee investigating the IRS targeting scandal released new e-mails that showed Lois Lerner sent a database of tax exempt organizations to the FBI, right before the 2010 midterm elections. Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC ) network coverage of this latest disclosure in the targeting scandal? A big fat yawn.

On Tuesday morning a high school student in Oregon open fire in a high school killing another student before taking his own life. Following the tragedy, all three morning network news shows played up President Obama’s reaction and promoted his call for action. While ABC, CBS, and NBC all promoted Obama’s statement, NBC’s Today was the most enthusiastic with Savannah Guthrie noting the president “had some pretty strong words” and hyping “pretty extraordinary moment” following the shooting

“[J]udges … should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.”

—John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

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Passed by stupid politicians catering to those whom won’t think, but will vote for the so called Senators and Representatives whom will do anything to stay in office..

The “facts” on the Senate immigration reform bill are misleading, false and we are being sold another bill of lies. The Democrat Party, and unfortunately some Republicans, are sharing “facts” about the bill that simply are not accurate. At The Brenner Brief, we have been busy on social media…

House Democrats on Thursday unveiled a set of 14 gun-control proposals broadly similar to recommendations made by an Obama administration task force led by Vice President Biden after the December massacre of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.

The congressional group, spearheaded by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), endorsed the same core proposals as the administration: a universal background check system for gun purchases, a ban on high-capacity magazines and a renewal of the lapsed assault weapons ban.

Everyone can imagine the horror of a madman shooting up an elementary school, especially the horror of losing your six-year-old in the melee. But at some point, the news media’s wallowing in Newtown reminds one of Don Henley’s satirical song “Dirty Laundry,” and how the anchors’ eyes gleam through plane-crash news because “it’s interesting when people die; we love dirty laundry.”

The “O” word that defines the media at times like these isn’t “objective.” It’s “opportunistic.”

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Of course they do!! It is the Buck Ofama PR media by the way..No ‘news’ reported anymore. Only lies and bullshit!!!

The Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA), in conjunction with 36 other national, state, and local organization members of the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban, released an Open Letter to Congress and the American people announcing their opposition to any effort to institute government controls on private transfers of personal firearms between law-abiding individuals.

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